Flash Email Links

[Orestes31]

When you bring flash into director..why does it disregard the email links? Or does it or is it ust me? (I don't know Director too well yet)

Any help would be appreciated. :)

[johnAq]

In short, when Flash issues a getURL command, it sends it to the host
application to deal with. A browser knows what to do when it is told to
navigate to a URL, or process a mailto. So when you run Flash in Director, it
send the getURL event to direcotr, but by default, it doesn't know how to
process it (Search the Director forum archives for get URL for more on this).

The solution is to create a getURL handler in a Director movie script and tell
it how to process the accompanying data - which Director can do with the
gotonetpage command

on getURL theData
goToNetPage(theData)
end

Note that in a projector, if you issue a mailto, gotonetpage will first call
up a browser window which will then process the mailto and open up an email
client. The free xtra [L=openURL]http://www.mods.com.au/xtras/default.htm[/L]
can process the command directly so you don't get the empty browser window.

on getURL theData
baOpenURL(theData)
end

hth

johnAq